juan carlos lopez is following the story but let's begin with jim acosta in boston for us. hey, there, jim. so talk to me specifically about the latino vote and its impact. romney was obviously never able to motivate latinoss to support him. is that the big takeaway for him when you look at really obama won them in big numbers last night. >> reporter: yeah, i think there are two big takeaways from what happened. it is obviously thes hispanic vote. but i do think the auto bailout issue for mitt romney was a big problem in the state of ohio. i was talking to some republican sources in that state as this race was winding down and they were first saying they think we'll win by three or four points and then right before the election, they were saying it's going to be very close and the reason why they were going to pennsylvania is it's a similar state to ohio, but didn't have the baggage of the auto bailout. the other issue is the his pan i go. i talked to the head of the american conservative union, could y could you ban americo-could you. and he said the republican party has t